6.IX. Long since, at Nature's call, they let it drop,
Thoughtlessly thoughtful for our next year's crop.
2.X. To smallest words great speakers greatness give;
Here Rome propounded her alternative.
7.X. We heap up many with toil and trouble,
And find that the whole of our gain is a bubble.
12.X. Add it among the hidden things—
A fishy tale to light it brings.
1.XI. "Lions," said a Gallic critic, "are not these."
Benevolent souls—they'd make your heart's blood freeze.